Toledo, which can be enjoyed as a day trip from Madrid, offers most stunning (and Gothic) cathedrals in Spain, plus plenty of ...

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s ...

The exhibition “Bowled Over,” featuring the skills and artistry of 21 ceramic artists, is currently on display at the Olive Free Library, 4033 state Route 28A, West Shokan, N.Y. Among the ...

Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1990, their first critical success was Disasters of War (1991), a diorama-like sculptural piece comprised of reclaimed plastic figurines ...

including Pablo Picasso and Francisco de Goya. Curator Annie le Brun said she had been 'amazed' by de Sade's intelligence and called his exploration of 'desire and the violence of desire' a ...

Francesco de Iorio, a barber in the Vicaria area, one evening in September 1701, in despair for having lost 150 ducats in ...

As L.A. became more progressive, Gomez retreated into his conservatism. During his three years as the first Latino head of ...

Pope Francis was the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit pontiff and the first to take the name of Francis, after ...

Just a few blocks from his childhood home, on Monday evening, the Basilica de San José de Flores in Buenos Aires was packed ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

Vatican insiders and interlocutors said the pontiff wanted to avoid getting swept up in the polarizing politics that ...